英语名人堂：昆汀·塔伦蒂诺

昆汀·塔伦蒂诺（Quentin Tarantino），1963年3月27日生于美国田纳西州的挪克斯维尔，美国后现代主义导演、编剧、演员、制作人[1]  。

1987年，拍摄个人首部喜剧短剧《我最好朋友的生日》。1991年，凭出售《致命浪漫》剧本所得的5万美元，决定开始拍摄自己的第三个剧本《落水狗》。[2]  1994年凭借执导拍摄犯罪剧情电影《低俗小说》获得戛纳影展金棕榈奖，1995年获奥斯卡最佳原著剧本奖，奠定了他的好莱坞地位[3]  。1997年，拍摄惊悚电影《危险关系》。2003年，连续推出《杀死比尔1》和《杀死比尔2 》，再掀昆式暴力美学高潮。2009年拍摄了布拉德·皮特领衔主演的电影《无耻混蛋》。2013年凭借电影《被解救的姜戈》获第85届奥斯卡奖最佳原创剧本奖[4]  。

 

Quentin Tarantino is an award-winning American film director, screenwriter and actor. He is known for his stylish¹ and violent movies. He rose to fame in the early 1990s for his unique directing method that relied heavily on dialogue. His screenplays are usually full of unforgettable lines and scenes. He has become a cult² director around the world while achieving superstar status.

 

Tarantino was born in Tennessee in 1963. He dropped out of high school when he was 15 to learn acting³. He got a job in a video rental⁴ store and spent all day watching and analyzing⁵ films. He had long discussions about them with customers. For Tarantino, this proved to be an education in directing that he would bring to his own moviemaking.

 

Tarantino met a movie producer at a Hollywood party who encouraged him to write a screenplay. In January 1992 ‘Reservoir Dogs’ came out and Tarantino instantly became a cult legend. He then wrote the screenplays for the box-office hits ‘True Romance’ and ‘Natural Born Killers’. In 1994, Tarantino made his classic ‘Pulp Fiction’ and won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

 

Tarantino made a few more films before writing and directing the ‘Kill Bill’ movies. These films combined the movie styles of Chinese martial⁶ arts, Japanese drama, spaghetti westerns and Italian horror. They confirmed him as one of Hollywood’s elite⁷ directors. Tarantino once said: "When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘No, I went to films.’”

1 stylish   

adj.流行的，时髦的；漂亮的，气派的

参考例句：

• He's a stylish dresser.他是个穿着很有格调的人。
• What stylish women are wearing in Paris will be worn by women all over the world.巴黎女性时装往往会引导世界时装潮流。

2 cult   

n.异教，邪教；时尚，狂热的崇拜

参考例句：

• Her books aren't bestsellers,but they have a certain cult following.她的书算不上畅销书，但有一定的崇拜者。
• The cult of sun worship is probably the most primitive one.太阳崇拜仪式或许是最为原始的一种。

3 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

4 rental   

n.租赁，出租，出租业

参考例句：

• The yearly rental of her house is 2400 yuan.她这房子年租金是2400元。
• We can organise car rental from Chicago O'Hare Airport.我们可以安排提供从芝加哥奥黑尔机场出发的租车服务。

5 analyzing   

v.分析；分析( analyze的现在分词 )；分解；解释；对…进行心理分析n.分析

参考例句：

• Analyzing the date of some socialist countries presents even greater problem s. 分析某些社会主义国家的统计数据，暴露出的问题甚至更大。 来自辞典例句
• He undoubtedly was not far off the mark in analyzing its predictions. 当然，他对其预测所作的分析倒也八九不离十。 来自辞典例句

6 martial   

adj.战争的，军事的，尚武的，威武的

参考例句：

• The sound of martial music is always inspiring.军乐声总是鼓舞人心的。
• The officer was convicted of desertion at a court martial.这名军官在军事法庭上被判犯了擅离职守罪。

7 elite   

n.精英阶层；实力集团；adj.杰出的，卓越的

参考例句：

• The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
• We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。